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    Improving Patient Safety and Quality of Care

    September 2, 2005

    Patient safety and improved quality of care have become priority issues in the American healthcare system.

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    Maximizing Throughput and Improving Patient Flow

    September 2, 2005

    According to data from the American Hospital Association (1), in 1985, the United States had 5732 operational community hospitals; by 2002, the latest year for which figures are available, the number had decreased to 4927, a loss of approximately 14% (1).

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    Improving Resource Utilization

    September 2, 2005

    Today’s hospitals must address a variety of challenges stemming from the expectation to provide more services and better quality with fewer financial, material, and human resources.

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    Providing Extraordinary Availability

    September 1, 2005

    In 1994, Jack Rosenbloom was admitted to an Indiana hospital after suffering a serious heart attack. While in the critical care unit (CCU) of the healthcare facility, he experienced a major relapse, prompting a “code blue” situation.

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    Leading Hospital Medical Staffs

    September 1, 2005

    When Robert Lee, MD, an internist affiliated with Iowa Health Physicians, a multi-specialty group in Des Moines, was called to the hospital to see one of his patients, he faced a 50-minute round trip plus additional time to find a parking place and catch an elevator before reaching the inpatient uni

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    Improving Physician’s Practices

    September 1, 2005

    Hospitals face a range of critical issues and need members of their medical staff to assume a role in addressing them.

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    Treating Unassigned Patients

    September 1, 2005

    In the 1970s and 1980s, indigent patients experienced problems at hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) around the country. They were refused care and shuttled to other facilities for services.